Barbara Ehrenreich

"Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job--any job--can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered....

Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of Our Lives, about the Reagan era, was received with bestselling acclaim. The one problem was the title: couldn't some prophetic fact-checker have seen that the worst years of our lives-far worse-were still to come? Here they are, the 2000s, and in This Land Is Their Land, Ehrenreich subjects them to the most biting and incisive satire of her career. Taking the measure of what...

The bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed goes back undercover to do for America's ailing middle class what she did for the working poor. Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed explored the lives of low-wage workers. Now, in BAIT AND SWITCH, she enters another hidden realm of the economy-the world of the white-collar unemployed. Armed with a plausible resume of a professional "in transition," attempts to land a "middle class job" undergoing career...

The classic work on women's health and how the medical establishment helped to justify sexism, by the authors of Witches, Midwives, and Nurses . From Barbara Ehrenrich, New York Times -bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed , Bright-Sided , and other titles, and Deirdre English, former editor of Mother Jones , this book delves into the history of how women have been diagnosed, defined, and often dismissed, by doctors, a problem that persists even...

Un libro necesario para entender muchos aspectos psicológicos de la crisis económica y social que vivimos. Un ataque a la cultura del "yo lo valgo". Una llamada a la prudencia, a la responsabilidad individual y colectiva, y contra el pensamiento mágico que ha popularizado la autoayuda en los últimos años. Escrito por una de las autoras más respetadas y carismáticas de Estados Unidos. Este libro ha suscitado una interesante controversia y...

Witches, Midwives, and Nurses examines how women-led healing was delegitimized to make way for patriarchy, capitalism, and the emerging medical industry. As we watch another agonizing attempt to shift the future of healthcare in the United States, we are reminded of the longevity of this crisis, and how firmly entrenched we are in a system that doesn't work. First published by the Feminist Press in 1973, Witches, Midwives, and Nurses is an essential...

"At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams--breaking free from the roots of her hometown in the Pacific Northwest, attending a university, and becoming a writer--were cut short when a summer fling turned into an unexpected pregnancy. She turned to housekeeping to make ends meet, working days and taking college classes online. She also began to write relentlessly. She wrote the true stories that weren't being told: the stories of overworked and underpaid Americans....

In middle age, the author came across the journal she had kept during her adolescence. She set out to reconstruct that quest, which had taken her to the study of science and through a cataclysmic series of 'mystical' experiences. A staunch atheist, she is profoundly shaken by the implications of her lifelong search. Part memoir, part philosophical and spiritual inquiry, it brings an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's uninhibited...